Book of Hosea Chapter 13 Vs. 8

 The Lord's Relentless Judgment on Israel

I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. Hos. 13:8

meet them as... The Syrian bear is fiercer than the brown bears to which we are accustomed. It attacks flocks (1Sam. 17:34), and even oxen. The fierceness of the she-bear, bereaved of her whelps, became a proverb (2Sam. 17:8; Prov. 17:12; and here). They who have written on the nature of wild beasts, say that none is more savage than the she-bear, when she has lost her whelps or lacks food.

and will rend... They had closed their hearts against God. Their punishment is pictured by the rending open of the closed heart, by the lion which is said to go instinctively straight to the heart, tears it out, and sucks the blood. Fearful will it be in the Day of Judgment, when the sinner's heart is laid open, with all the foul, cruel, malicious, defiled, thoughts which it harbored and concealed, against the will of God. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God (Heb. 10:31).

there will I... Where I find them and seize them, like the hungry and fearless lion, which feasts on his prey where he caught it, draws it not into his den, but devours it immediately.

like a lion... An old lion that hath his great teeth, his grinders, and hath still whelps (Gen. 49:9); fierce and terrible, that will either call in his whelps to divide the prey, or drag the prey to his den for them: and what hope of anything to be spared, when you fall into such hands?

The wild beast shall tear them: it is said of the lion, that he calls by his roaring the wild beasts together to the prey when he hath taken it; so you shall be devoured by the whole troop of wild beasts. Or it may be a general threat added to those particular ones before; every wild beast shall prey upon them. All this God executed on them by the Assyrians, who in their fierceness, cruelty, greediness, and courage answered the character here given to them.

A mother bear that has lost her whelps is a ferocious animal. She will destroy everything that gets in her way. This is speaking of this ferocious animal grabbing at the heart area, and tearing an opening to the heart to kill it.

Ironically the Helper of Israel would become her Destroyer because she was against Him (Hos. 13:9).